PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A legal loophole may be allowing killers to get away with murder in Arizona, according to victims’ families who say suspects are avoiding prosecution by claiming self-defense.

Colorado's second-highest court concluded last week that an incomplete self-defense instruction required the reversal of an El Paso County defendant's murder convictions.

For the first time in Massachusetts history, the state’s highest court recognized what’s called “transferred intent self-defense.” This means that if someone uses lawful self-defense but accidentally ...

A murder suspect can claim self-defense to justify killing an innocent bystander, the state’s highest court has ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court took up the Western Mass homicide case from 2023 ...